Today's background image is the front page of the NY Times on July 21, 1969. Newspaper front pages were wonderful, almost poetic documents.#

The owner of a French newspaper wants to turn it into a media hub, with TV station, start-up incubator, cultural center and cafe. The reporters are unhappy! But it's a great idea. Bring the people into the newsroom. Break down the walls. It's painful to learn you're no longer elite. But that's reality with news reporting in 2014. The NY Times report is skeptical. But look who's writing it. #

How are we going to get stories where regular people can have good ideas, and communicate them to other people. Forget about the big corporations. They have plenty of ways to get the same story out through cloistered newsrooms. I'll hear about what they do, not worried about that.#

So if the newsrooms are more like a coffee shop (move them out of office buildings and down to street level), you might get some more interesting real stories that make sense to real people. #

Allaroundusthesedaysa new kind of blogging is booting up, created by Twitter's 140-character limit. If you have something to say and it doesn't fit, put it in a GIF and link to that from the tweet. Twitter will show everyone the image, without them having to go anywhere.#

Obviously, it's way past time to come up with a way of doing that for text with minimal styling. #